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  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Lamb, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0115

    The defendant's movement of the victims from a bank office to the floor of the main lobby was an inherent part of an armed robbery, occurred during and incidental to the armed robbery, and did not

  • Rana v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: McNeill Stokes, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, and Rocky L. Bridges, Assistant District Attorney, Woodbine, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0424

    The defendant asked a detective with the Kingsland Police Department to have his uncle killed, described his location, and paid the detective $7K, when he believed the murder to have been comp

  • Watts v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian K. Ross, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie M. Bell, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1383

    Defense counsel's decision not to impeach the defendant's wife with evidence of her prior convictions was a matter of trial ta

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence W. Daniel, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1037

    The victim's testimony supported the defendant's convictions for child molestation and aggravated sexual ba

  • Boggs v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer R. Burns, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, and Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0269

    Officers saw the defendant and his accomplice flee from a man left in a crumbled heap on a sidewalk in downtown Savannah and saw the defendant drop the man's stolen backpack during pu

  • Bryant v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David L. Whitman, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Christa L. Kirk District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0970

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion to sever charges related to a rape and burglary from his eight other burglary charges, since all of the charges against him clearly show

  • Sirdah v. North Springs Assocs. LLLP

    Publication Date: 2010-06-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald C. Suessmith Jr. McCurdy & Candler, Decatur, Salmeh K. Fodor, Alicia C. King and Bijan Kasraie Marchman Kasraie LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Bertram Levy Fina & Block Attorneys, Atlanta, Isidor J. Kim Kim & Yang LLC, Duluth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0329

    The general rule is that the duty to mitigate damages set forth in O.C.G.A. § 13-6-5 does not apply to lease cont

  • Rucker v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-06-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela B. Dillon, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray and Albert T. Reeves Jr., Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0704

    The defendant failed to satisfy his burden of proving ' "an infringement of his rights or a procedural irregularity" ' with regard to his prior plea to cocaine possession, after the state proved the

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-06-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel D. Morgan, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and John A. Tully District Attorney's Office, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1298

    The state was not required to show that the defendant knew he was within 1,000 feet of public housing to support a conviction under OCGA § 16-13

  • Arnold v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen R. Scarborough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Albert T. Reeves Jr. and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0410

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's motion to suppress, because police officers were authorized to handcuff the defendant and pat him down for weapons, since the defendant behaved in a t